Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 25 May 2003 14:53:19 +0100 | From | Paulo Andre' <> | Subject | Re: Question on verify_area() and friends wrt |
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Thanks for your quick reply, Cristoph.
One more question arises though...
On Sun, 25 May 2003 13:07:06 +0100 Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> verify_area only does some checks so you need to check the return > value from copy_to_user. You could switch to __copy_to_user, though.
Why would __copy_to_user be a good choice? AFAIK, __copy_to_user does no validy checks (as opposed to copy_to_user which does access_ok()) so, considering verify_area() does only some checks, one could argue that there's even less checking done if using __copy_to_user. Where am I interpreting this wrong (as I certainly am) ?
Thanks again,
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